IQNA

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Palestinian leaders on Tuesday called for prayers at mosques across the Middle East this week to protest against plans by Donald Trump to move the US embassy in the Occupied Palestine from Tel Aviv to Quds (Jerusalem).

There have been warnings that moving the US embassy to the
contested city and recognizing Quds as the occupying regime’s capital could
inflame tensions across the region and sink what remains of peace efforts.

Mohammad Shtayyeh, a senior Palestinian official and Fatah
central committee member who was speaking on behalf of the Palestinian
leadership, said doing so would mean an "end to the two-state
solution".

He said the Palestinian leadership had been informed by
diplomatic contacts that Trump could call for the move in his inauguration
speech on January 20.

Fatah leaders are considering whether to withdraw their
recognition of Israel if the move goes through, he said.

They have added the issue to the agenda of a meeting of
foreign ministers from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on January 19 in
Malaysia, he added.

Shtayyeh called for prayers at mosques throughout the Middle
East on Friday as well as for churches to ring bells in protest on Sunday.

"I think and we all think that moving the embassy to
Jerusalem is a dangerous step that will have dangerous consequences for the
political track for our people and for our future aspirations and for the
Muslim, Arab, Christian countries and people all over the world," said Shtayyeh,
AFP reported.

"We are not inciting violence. Ringing a church bell
... is not a violent act. Calling for a prayer is not a violent act," he
said.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has written to Trump
urging him not to move the embassy.

Israel occupied the West Bank and east Jerusalem in 1967. It
later annexed east Jerusalem in a move never recognized by the international
community.